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Venomoth makes a great lead. Start off by using sleep powder on your foe. Then proceed to get 1-3 Quiver dances in. Then it's your choice between baton passing to a stronger Pokemon, or using bug buzz/psychic yourself. Tinted lenses gives you 2x damage on any not-very-effective attack you use. It's a pretty good ability, especially for venomoth.
Focus sash is there in case your foe out-speeds you, or sleep powder misses on the first try.

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this set has some double/triple potential. focus sash allows you to live at least one turn. skill swap allows you to swap abilities with a partner. rage powder has priority allowing you to give your partner(s) a turn without taking damage. bug buzz and psychic are there for coverage attacks

my thought is to partner venomoth with slaking. you can skill swap with slaking and give it tinted lens making slaking have a nearly unresisted STAB working off a monster attack stat. your next turn (or the turn after depending on if truant would kick in) can be used to either skill swap truant onto an opponent or to use rage powder to protect slaking. and worst case scenario is that venomoth gets killed after it skill swaps and truant is no longer in play

as i have said... this is a GIMMICK set so dont quote it pointing out flaws

Skill swap would be awesome if it worked on Truant... Heck, anything would be good if it worked on Truant.... Unfortunately not, though... But Skill Swapping one of Venomoth's abilities onto a sweeper at the start of a battle would be awesome... If Venomoth could survive an attack from multiple opponents prior to the swap...

Skill swap would be awesome if it worked on Truant... Heck, anything would be good if it worked on Truant.... Unfortunately not, though... But Skill Swapping one of Venomoth's abilities onto a sweeper at the start of a battle would be awesome... If Venomoth could survive an attack from multiple opponents prior to the swap...

P.s. I feel obligated to note that I made no quotation of anybody

skill swap is the only way to get rid of truant. simple beam, entertainment, and worry seed dont work on a pokemon with truant. you can still use entertainment to give something truant though

skill swap is the only way to get rid of truant. simple beam, entertainment, and worry seed dont work on a pokemon with truant. you can still use entertainment to give something truant though

so if mr. mime got tinted lens...
no more focus blast. random and useless pokes aside, Venomoth is yet another example of a poke with a great ability and decent movepool, but whose typing and stats let it down. Venomoth is volcorona's older, frailer, and weaker cousin who only has usability due to irs ability, precise movepool, and baton pass.

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With Tinted lens, you can run Choice Specs sets, and it would hit better. On the other hand, with quiver dance sets, you can do a good neutral stab move most of the time. (You need HP fighting/ground to take out steel/rock) RUN THIS. USE NO OTHER.

Wonder skin? Good for maybe one extra move when Ferrothorn misses with thunder wave. Not amazing, but annoying with a lum berry.

I like Shield dust. It means no fakeouts, it means no Jirachi/serene graces! (not that it matters much, a zen headbutt kills, anyhow)

Poison Fang is probably the best STAB option for Physical Venomoth. When the added effect is TOXIC Poison, you have a good option...if it sticks. Bug Bite and U-Turn have good strategy for Physical Venomoth, disabling Berry users and scouting, respectively.

Non-STAB has a decent potential for Physical Venomoth sets. Zen Headbutt can Flinch, Facade is an option against Status Effect flingers, Acrobatics is wonderful with a 1-use Item, and Thief can swipe something quite useful to your opponents.

Again, I do not suggest the use of Physical sets if you don't have the Stats to do so, but if you're a strategist, you have lots of options with Venomoth.

Mixed sets...
Slightly better than Physical, but severely outclassed by Special and Baton Pass sets. You have access to Poison Fang for Toxic Poison with your STAB, Quiver Dance for buffs, and Bug Buzz for powerful STAB.

The physical options above, Energy Ball, Psychic, Venoshock (if you want to run Toxic on a partner or Toxic Spikes), Struggle Bug (for the strategists), Roost...the list of options is huge for mixed, but once you get Quiver Dance in, you may as well stick to Special (except against Special Walls).